[LINK] US government running DNS botnet "as band aid"

[Fernando Cassia]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/254259/why_your_internet_might_disappear_this_summer.html

Interesting... I wonder if it would have been easier to just shut down the
botnet and users would immediately know something was wrong and, gee, fix
their computers?.

What purpose does it serve to just "turn the botnet into legitimate DNS
servers" and continue running it (basically providing the authorities with
the browsing habits of hundres of thousands of users...) if you' re
eventually going to shut those down, too?.

"The DCWG is an ad hoc group of subject matter experts, and includes
members from organizations such as Georgia Tech, Internet Systems
Consortium, Mandiant, National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance,
Neustar, Spamhaus, Team Cymru, Trend Micro, and the University of Alabama
at Birmingham."

FC
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